Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with December 26.

Events

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Births

1848 – William Ewart (1848-1929), English physician; described Ewart sign (1896), Ewart sign II (1896) and Ewart’s twelve signs of pericardial effusio

1886 – Sir Thomas Lewis (1881-1945), Welsh cardiologist; described the Lewis lead (S5-lead) (1913), and Lewis Triple Response (1927)

1904 – Sylvester McGinn (1904-1984), American cardiologist; described the McGinn-White pattern (1935) – S_I Q_III T_III  pattern on ECG representing right heart strain in an acute pulmonary embolism

1917 – Robert Douglas Sweet (1917-2001), English Dermatologist; described Sweet syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis) (1964)

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Deaths

1976 – Jens Einar Meulengracht (1887–1976), Danish physician; provided early description of Gilbert syndrome (1900), Meulengracht ikterus index (1919), Meulengracht diet (1934), and Holst-Meulengracht disease (1945)

2004 – James Francis “Frank” Pantridge (1916-2004), Northern Irish cardiologist and widely regarded as the father of emergency medicine. Devised the Pantridge defibrillator (1965) and the Pantridge Plan (1966)

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